Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weakly acquiescing in practices which he privately abhorred, while the world longed for a strong man to stand up and denounce them. Mr. Lansing does not appear as the sensation-monger. His narrative furnishes largely a corroboration of much that is already known. It reveals an honest, well-intentioned statesman subordinating his matured personal opinion to a dubious loyalty to his country's interests, and in the end signing a treaty without public protest or reservation, which he was convinced to be iniquitous, in order to obtain--peace at any price...
Greece, who is now dealing with affairs in Turkey, is much too weak for the task. This Mr. Morganthau represented to Mr. Venizelos at the Peace Conference in 1919, but that statesman whom the speaker characterized as one of the greatest men of the age, while admitting the truth of Mr. Morgenthau's assertion, said that to withdraw the Greek troops from Asia Minor would be fatal to his ministry. Mr. Venizelos' ministry has fallen, and the Greek troops remain in Turkey, but they are accomplishing nothing...
...great statesman has said, "began Mr. Seeley, "the work of uniting the nations in the band of brotherhood is an effort to enthrone the conscience of the world. This universal consciousness of right and good," he continued, "discerned and obeyed in ever increasing measure, in its unfoldment is 'God with us', the Mind of absolute good. Job discerned this incorporeal and unlimited sense of God, speaking of Him as being in one Mind, while Christ called this parent intelligence Father and Spirit. John, regarding the kindness, mercy and protection of the Father Mind spoke of him as Love...
...next four years, and his confidence has carried him far. No good ever came or is likely to come from promises so freely given, especially when they deal with international disputes and racial prejudices. There are times when words accomplish more harm than good. Senator Lodge is a clever statesman, but he seems to have forgotten, for the time being, diplomacy and tact...
...indications that the new government of Mexico is one of stability and one with a creditable sense of its duties and obligations. On the fifth of September, the citizens of that country elected Alvaro Obregon to be their chief executive. Prominent and popular as a soldier and as a statesman, the president-elect is supported by a coalition of parties and gives promise of a new lease of life to Mexico...